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Soldiers and vehicles of the United States USA 104th Infantry Division in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

American soldiers of the 104th Infantry Division, 104th Reconnaissance Troop, drive along a road, deep in Gernamy, near the end of World War 2 in Europe. According to signposts, they are 3 Km from Bennstedt and 11Km from Halle, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. An M18 Hellcat tank destroyer follows behind the jeeps, carrying 4 soldiers atop its turret. Another behind it carries 6 soldiers on it.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078461
Germany prepares to defend Fortress City of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Poland) against Soviets in World War II

The city of Breslau being fortified and prepared to defend against surrounding soviet forces in January, 1945, World War 2. Armed sentries patrolling the city streets. Snow on ground in some places. Poster announces the situation and requests cooperation of all Men, women, and children (over the age of 10). A poster being nailed to a pole, showing a defender with a panzerfaust anti-tank weapon confronting a tank. German soldiers shouldering panzerhaust on patrol in the snow. Closeup of insignia on sleeves on defenders' overcoats reading,"Volkssturm Wehrmacht." Men on defensive barricades. Others hauling material for defenses in wheel barrows. Tram cars being overturned and placed as impediments to invading forces. Closeup of Karl August Hanke, Gauleiter of Silesia, the city's Battle Commander (Kampfkommandant), mingling with other officers, and various groups of defenders. Hatless, he shakes hands with a defender who is dressed in heavy white cold weather coat. A car riding on road laced with tram tracks. view from inside the car of streets, building, and barriers contrived from overturned vehicles. Tram cars being set up as barriers. View from inside a defensive position, of a woman and man walking in the snow. Men setting up boxes of explosives and hooking them up to detonators along railroad tracks on a bridge. Closeups of the boxes and detonators. The charges are ignited and a large destructive explosion results raising dust and smoke. Civilian inhabitants of Breslau, under orders to evacuate, are seen leaving the city with their belongings. Some ride in army trucks, others use any means available to transport their belongings, including , wagons, bicycles, carts, and even baby carriages. As they leave, German soldiers including Volkssturm (Peoples' Militia) enter to reinforce the city defenses, Views of the reinforcements, some carrying panzerfaust anti-tank weapons, but most shouldering rifles as they march into the city. Cases of small arms being offloaded from army trucks to supply the reinforcements. A Goliath, SdKfz. 303 remote controlled tracked mine is seen scurrying across the ground as soldiers watch it in operation. A contingent of Volkssturm carrying panzerfaust weapons. City defenders setting up a large artillery field piece. A supply train carrying heavy armor and artillery to the city. A German Hetzer light tank destroyer (JagdPanzer 38) being maneuvered into position with other armor on a dirt road. A line of Panther tanks on a roadway behind supply trucks. Closeup of one with crew members visible. Scene shifts to a dirt airfield where a German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft is taking off. It is followed by several Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. Some raise considerable dust during takeoff. Closeup of one passing the camera on takeoff. Next, one is seen nosing over in the soft dirt of the airfield. But the pilot manages to right it again and continue the takeoff. Some Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft taking off in the dust. German airmen look up to watch the departing airplanes. Aircraft are barely seen in distance above, possibly engaged in dogfights with Soviet aircraft. Black smoke rising from Soviet bombing or shelling. German Army soldier on the airfield, shouldering a panzerfaust, looks skyward, with a comrade. View of sky shows aircraft engaged above, but barely discernible. White smoke rises from the ground, possibly from a crashed airplane.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675057619
Scenes in and around Auerbach and Tannenbergsthal in Germany, immediately after the end of World War II in Europe.

German soldiers, in and around Auerbach and Tannenbergsthal, Saxony, moving to home bases in Germany immediately after end of World War Two in Europe. German trucks loaded with troops and a bus loaded with German soldiers turn a corner and move on road. German bus moves on tree lined street. German soldiers and trucks in a grassy field. Trees and hills in the background. German and American soldiers converse. German officers surrender pistols and a rifle to a U.S. Army officer. German soldiers ride in horse drawn carts on a street in a village. They ride along rugged road. German officer talks with U.S. Army officer. German truck on a village street and a country road. German soldier walks on a road. He stops to read a road sign. German open staff car moves on street in village. German soldiers ride in two horse drawn carts. Other German soldiers walk beside carts. Two German officers talk with a U.S. Army officer. German soldiers ride on top of bus. U.S. Army officer talks with a group of German officers.

Date: 1945, May 9
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073092
Liberated United States airmen prisoners at Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Germany (WW2)

Liberated United States prisoners (mostly military airmen) at POW camp called Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) VII A, located just North of Moosburg, Germany during World War II. The airmen cook food. Several are seen sunning themselves. Airmen seen shaving, shining shoes and cleaning clothes. A group of airmen around sign 'I Wanted Wings' and 'Luft 3'. These are some of the prisoners who were originally held at Stalag Luft III, in German Province of Lower Silesia, near the town of Sagan (now in Poland). (Note: Stalag Luft III is famous because the "Great Escape" took place there in March, 1944. Prisoners were forced to march from Sagan to Spremburg during the coldest winter in Germany in 50 years. There, they boarded a train of boxcars for a 3 day trip to Moosburg in January 1945, because the Russians were closing in. The addition of these prisoners to Stalag 7A, at Moosburg, led to serious overcrowding of the camp. On May 1, 1945, the New York Times reported that "The Fourteenth Armored Division liberated 110,000 Allied prisoners of war at Stalag 7A at Moosburg." This corrected an earlier report that 27,000 prisoners had been liberated.)

Date: 1945, April 29
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040694
Relief activities of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) in Dresden Germany, after World War I

River front and the Royal Castle of Saxony seen in Dresden. The offices of 'American Friends Service Committee' (Quakers) located in Royal Castle of Saxony. American staff seen entering past barbed wire entanglements which are for protection of the castle. Physicians examine hungry, undernourished and malnourished German children during time of economic calamity and food shortages in Germany following World War 1. Several children sit on benches. A doctor examines a girl using a stethoscope. Boys file into a room for weight and height examination, confirming undernourished children.

Date: 1920
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040646
Acting Military Governor General Timofei Dudarjov is interviewed by U.S. correspondents in Germany.

Acting Military Governor General Timofei Dudarjov is interviewed in Germany. The seat of Soviet Military Government for the state of Saxony. The Acting Military Governor of the States of Saxony is interviewed by U.S. correspondents. A Russian aide and a Russian girl interpreter present. Acting Military Governor Major General Timofei Dmitrievich Dudarjov. Insignia of the Guards Regiment. His aide Colonel Ivan Feodorvitch Karnautchenko. The name of the girl interpreter is Eugenia Vasilievna. Next to the aide is Victor Bernstein of PM. Next to the interpreter is Kendall Foss of the New York Post. The General talks.

Date: 1946, February
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070621